Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • How cohabitation, marriage, separation, and divorce influence BMI: A prospective panel study

    Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Method: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926 observations over 16 years. Face-to-face interviews were used to obtain demographic data, including cohabitation and ...

    In: Health Psychology 37 (2018), 10, 948-958 | Jutta Mata, David Richter, Thorsten Schneider, Ralph Hertwig
  • Risk Preference: A View from Psychology

    Psychology offers conceptual and analytic tools that can advance the discussion on the nature of risk preference and its measurement in the behavioral sciences. We discuss the revealed and stated preference measurement traditions, which have coexisted in both psychology and economics in the study of risk preferences, and explore issues of temporal stability, convergent validity, and predictive validity ...

    In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 32 (2018), 2, 155-172 | Rui Mata, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, Ralph Hertwig
  • The Impact of Pension Reforms on Older People's Income: a Comparative View

    In: G. Hughes, J. Stewart , Reforming Pensions in Europe: Evolution of Pensions Financing and Sources of Retirement Income
    Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
    107-140
    | Antoine Math
  • New Directions in Life Course Research

    Life courses are studied in sociology and neighboring fields as developmental processes, as culturally and normatively constructed life stages and age roles, as biographical meanings, as aging processes, as outcomes of institutional regulation and policies, as demographic accounts, or as mere empirical connectivity across the life course. This review has two aims. One is to report on trends in life ...

    In: Annual Review of Sociology 35 (2009), 413-433 | Karl Ulrich Mayer
  • Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence

    Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask subjects to report (a) how their income compares ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2009,
    (SOEPpapers 214)
    | Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
  • Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

    We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education to data for the USA, the UK and Germany. We find that in residual wage variation, uncertainty by far dominates unobserved heterogeneity. The relation between uncertainty and level of education is not monotonic and differs among countries.

    In: Labour Economics 24 (2013), October 2013, 323-338 | Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog
  • Priorities may drive happiness

    Blog der CNN, 2010, | Alex Liu
  • Combining family and full-time work

    Dublin: Eurofound, 2005,
    (Report for the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO))
    | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living, Working Conditions
  • Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start

    Minneapolis: Federal Reserve Bank, Research Department, 2003,
    (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Paper 617)
    | Igor Livshits, James MacGee, Michele Tertilt
  • Family Separation and Refugee Mental Health: a Network Perspective

    How do the structure and relational features of family networks affect refugees’ mental health after migration, particularly when refugees are geographically separated from their family? Using the first wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, which is representative of the population of refugees who arrived in Germany between 2013 and 2016, this study finds that the size of the nuclear family ...

    In: Social Networks 61 (2020), May 2020, 20-33 | Lea-Maria Löbel
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